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Time travel/machine? Is it possible?

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Particle or light transfer:
Yah i think it's possible. I'm not sure, but my biology teacher a few years back was telling us that they have successfully transported light. I don't know that for a fact though, just hear say.

Human transfer:
Yah, i think one day that might be possible, but only in present time.

Human transfer to the future or past:
You guys have seen way too many sci-fi movies. Get out some.


IMHO


peace
sean
 


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To create a wormhole (and travel back to a random place in time) in 5 steps:
1. use a particle collider to heat a speck of matter to 10 trillion degrees
2. compress the hot spot by a factor of a billion billion (making a wormhole smaller than a subatomic particle)
3. Blast that opening of the hole with a million 1 terawatt laser beams until it's large enough for one passenger
4. Whip one end of the wormhole around like a lasso at nearly the speed of light to create a time differential between the entrance and exit
5. Hop in and enjoy the ride >>




ummm after coming out of such high energy cavity would you come out intact or as water vapor and graphite?
 


<< Human transfer to the future or past:
You guys have seen way too many sci-fi movies. Get out some. >>

Uhm, like pointed out before, transporting someone into the future is a piece of cake. Well, somewhat 😛

All you need is a fast spaceship or another way to allow yourself to travel faster than those around you, thereby 'slowing down' time.
 


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To create a wormhole (and travel back to a random place in time) in 5 steps:
1. use a particle collider to heat a speck of matter to 10 trillion degrees
2. compress the hot spot by a factor of a billion billion (making a wormhole smaller than a subatomic particle)
3. Blast that opening of the hole with a million 1 terawatt laser beams until it's large enough for one passenger
4. Whip one end of the wormhole around like a lasso at nearly the speed of light to create a time differential between the entrance and exit
5. Hop in and enjoy the ride >>




ummm after coming out of such high energy cavity would you come out intact or as water vapor and graphite? >>

I think the latter =)
 


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<< if this was possible, then how come we dont have any records showing people who claim that they are from the future in the history of mankind? >>



Isn't mental institutions full of these people? 😉 >>

I concur 😛 ...but should the argument be ...timetravel or matter displacement ?
 


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<< Human transfer to the future or past:
You guys have seen way too many sci-fi movies. Get out some. >>

Uhm, like pointed out before, transporting someone into the future is a piece of cake. Well, somewhat 😛

All you need is a fast spaceship or another way to allow yourself to travel faster than those around you, thereby 'slowing down' time. >>



Well though it sounds reasonable, the problem with that is:

A) time doesn't neccasarly have a speed at which you could travel like light or sound does. Speed is a part of time. You can't say you traveld 3 years per minute. ex: time/time != speed.

B)If you take that fast ship and go around the earth in the opposite direction it spins, you're are still in the same time deminsion.

peace
sean
 
you wouldn't even necessarily have to go back and kill someone to alter events. just by being back there the ripple effect should drastically change things. by going back to 1900 for a split second you may inadvertantly make it so that your parents never meet or even conceived in the future.

our understanding is so low at this point i don't think we could ever hope to comprehend the science involved with it if it's even possible at all. now that i think about it every "law" we propose is based on our short-sighted nature and bound to be flawed. every genius of their time with theories and lawed have at sometime come to be proven flawed, i don't see how we can possibly anything as absolute fact. we're discovering new things all the time, i wouldn't be surprised if the very foundations of our science were proven wrong (laws of gravity and energy). *shrug, just my thought on it. still fun to talk about though 🙂
 
I beleive that there IS no real time, per se...I believe the concept of time was created to quantify motion and existance within the third dimension, where we all exist. Even GOD couldn't get it perfectly right, therefore leaving us with all kinds of temporal anomalies like "leap years" and "Daylight Savings" and "Time Zones"...I believe space and "time" are one dimension that can't be traveled through...What could happen is that dimensions are PARALLEL...a person could travel through different dimensions featuring different "time-lines"...b/c time not only is relative, but always happens NOW, you can only exist on one plane at any given moment in time...furthermore, every moment in time is it's own "time line"! Thus, one who wanted to travel time would be travelling into a parallel timeline, and altering it accordingly...but since every moment in time is it's own parallel "time line", nothing else would be affected except for the "time line" you entered!

That's really crazy, but it makes sense to me...
 


<< It simply is weird for various reasons. If you go back in time and kill your mom then you couldn't have been born, but then she wouldn't have been killed by you, in which case you wouold have been born, but they couldn't have been cause you killed her. This is one example. >>



I believe this is known as the grandfather paradox. So called, because if you go back in time and kill your grandfather before he fathered your father, then your father obviously would never have fathered you. Some cosmologists say that when you go back in time, you don't exist in this universe, instead you exist in a parallel universe temporally decoupled from the current universe in which you reside. Since you do not exist in the universe in which you kill your grandfather, the universe in which you do exists is unaffected.

Now, whether or not you believe this is a question that exists in yet another universe. 😀
 


<< "leap years" and "Daylight Savings" and "Time Zones"... >>



You're confusing time itself with the human perception of time and the attempt to regulate time through the use of calendars.



<< I believe space and "time" are one dimension that can't be traveled through >>



Actually "spacetime" is of four dimensions, three spatial, one temporal.



<< b/c time not only is relative, but always happens NOW, >>



It's relative, but always happens now? Hmm? That's what relativity is, it's always happening NOW /relative/ to others where it is also happening NOW. 🙂



<< you can only exist on one plane at any given moment in time...furthermore, every moment in time is it's own "time line"! >>



Actually, there are interconnectness theorems (Bell's theorem, quantified by the theory of angular momentum, I believe) that show (at least at the quantum level) a level of omnipresence.



<< Thus, one who wanted to travel time would be travelling into a parallel timeline, and altering it accordingly...but since every moment in time is it's own parallel "time line", nothing else would be affected except for the "time line" you entered! >>



Yes, note my reference to the grandfather paradox and the idea of a multiverse. All entirely too theoretical, and impossible to substantiate at this point.
 


<< if this was possible, then how come we dont have any records showing people who claim that they are from the future in the history of mankind? i mean, if they invented time travelling in the future, they would have to travel back and tell us about it right? yet since the time when men developled writing, we dont have any written records indicating any occurence regarding to that subject. >>



I remember Michio Kaku talking about Time Travel, saying that when you time travel back in time -to see Abraham Lincoln Perhaps. It will be Abraham Lincoln, but it won't be our Abraham Lincoln. It would be a unique Abraham Lincoln in an alternative reality/universe. Saying there are multiple universes and realities just inches apart from each other.

I would also think if the technology was available to time travel, there should also be technology for cloaking or such (so they could be undetectable). They wouldn't want to alter the future, therefore they would make themselves invisible and unknown so they can just observe. Who knows, maybe UFO's and such aren't aliens.. but just very evolved humans from the far distant future, visiting the past. 😉
 
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